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We’re not opposed to taxidermy per se, but, well, when it’s strictly for entertainment and fantasy purposes it can become a little problematic. Or maybe we’re just really creeped out by the things some imaginative taxidermists create. For instance, all the beasties in Coed Magazine’s listicle of The 28 Creepiest Taxidermy Creations are worrisome, and [...]

We’ve long been fond of embarrassing pet costumes, although we’re starting to suspect that this interest says more about us than it does about the nutty owners who dress their domestic animals as other things. Nevertheless, the Web’s fondness for all things unicorn seemed to present the perfect foil to our love of pet costumes, [...]

Comic-Con 09 happened recently, and while much of the coverage (as far as we could tell) was devoted to attractive women in cosplay costumes, the annual extravaganza of all things nerd-tastic had plenty of poorly costumed attendees too. Just look at Costume Pop’s hilarious listicle of 12 Costume Fails from Comic Con, like this fella [...]

The second place winner in the recent VisionWorks competition, which sought new ideas and technologies to help create and sustain better living conditions, was an unusual proposal by Philipp Hermes that involves using track-mounted containers to ship objects, documents and goods around the city. Though the project, dubbed Urban Mole (pictured), sounds expensive, the beauty [...]

Movies are our religion (our cultural religion generally, and the Listicles religion specifically), so it’s fitting that some of the most moving stories put to screen should feature biblical narratives about precocious young folks being shoved into adulthood by the massive responsibilities heaped upon them. Unreality has compiled a brief listicle (too brief, we think) [...]